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This week: What workers carry home

Mar 10, 2026

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11 min read

This week: What workers carry home

Plus: The baker of Ikaria, China's five-year plan and what it means for aged care, the jobs AI is actually disrupting, and a dementia prevention finding thirty years in the making.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: Australia's grey-shaped economy

Mar 3, 2026

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12 min read

This week: Australia's grey-shaped economy

Plus: The UN starts drafting rights for older people, what changes about diet when you're past 80, and a reframe on midlife and mortality.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: China observations on ageing, aged care and beyond

Feb 24, 2026

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11 min read

This week: China observations on ageing, aged care and beyond

Plus: Education-based productivity gaps, a man who gets older on his own terms, and building interactive tools and pages with AI.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: What is capital asymmetry for aged care

Feb 17, 2026

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11 min read

This week: What is capital asymmetry for aged care

Plus: The excitement and risks of AI, why digital companions won't solve social isolation, Europe’s longevity divide, and the “gold rush” for menopause marketing.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: What Australia gets right about volunteers

Feb 10, 2026

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11 min read

This week: What Australia gets right about volunteers

Plus: Longevity and retirement, lessons from extended use of monitoring technologies, a new family health app, and older adults using AI to better articulate problems

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: The financial fragility of our aged care workers

Feb 3, 2026

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12 min read

This week: The financial fragility of our aged care workers

Plus: "Green" dying, AI guidelines, a short film on intergenerational friendship, and the small changes linked to longevity

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: Manufacturing meaning in aged care

Jan 27, 2026

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10 min read

This week: Manufacturing meaning in aged care

Plus: parks as social infrastructure, AI health risks, and switching care without moving homes

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: China's rulebook for AI companions, and a new look for Age Friendly

Jan 13, 2026

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8 min read

This week: China's rulebook for AI companions, and a new look for Age Friendly

Plus: trading room and board for companionship, time banking, and predicting disease from sleep patterns.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
🦹‍♂️ The 70cm robot that went rogue (and what China's doing about aged care AI)

Dec 16, 2025

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9 min read

🦹‍♂️ The 70cm robot that went rogue (and what China's doing about aged care AI)

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
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